India generates ~$19B from auctioning airwaves, including for 5G; Reliance Jio spent $11B+ on 24,740 megahertz, followed by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone (Bloomberg)
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The US CHIPS Act's financial aid is unlikely to cover all giant projects, meaning the Department of Commerce will face difficult choices in who gets the money ( / Financial Times)
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Bolt Mobility, co-founded by Usain Bolt, seems to have ceased operations and vanished from at least five US cities, leaving unusable e-bikes; Bolt raised $40.2M ( / TechCrunch)
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As the market downturn sees some US tech investors and startups hunkering down, others continue as normal; Q2 average investment deal sizes are at record levels ( / Wall Street Journal)
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A look at Samsung's mounting semiconductor problems: reportedly losing Qualcomm and Nvidia's business to TSMC, Galaxy S22 lagging iPhone 13's chips, and more (Financial Times)
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Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps ( / Washington Post)
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As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B ( / Wall Street Journal)
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An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets (Water & Music)
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An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games ( / Washington Post)
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In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act ( / The Verge)
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Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo)
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Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)
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Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children ( / New York Times)
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How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges ( / Wired)
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A look at the GOP's escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail's filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam (Washington Post)
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A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)
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Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport / New Yorker)
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The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki / Nikkei Asia)
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A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse ( / Crunchbase News)
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Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports ( / The Verge)
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Indonesia says it has blocked PayPal, Yahoo, Steam, Epic Games, and other websites for failure to comply with licensing rules introduced in November 2020 ( / Reuters)
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Human rights groups say Facebook approved English and Swahili ads instigating ethnic violence in Kenya, after claiming to foster "safe and secure" elections ( / Gizmodo)
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Salesforce, whose logo appeared on Helium's website, also says it is not a Helium partner; Helium has removed both Lime and Salesforce logos from its website ( / The Verge)
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How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a "fake news" pretext ( / Bloomberg)
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Some streamers on Twitch, a more intimate platform than others, endure threats and stalkers and say Twitch gives limited support when dangerous situations arise (New York Times)
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Sources: the Commerce Department has told all US chipmaking equipment manufacturers to not supply gear to China for fabs for making 14nm chips or below (Bloomberg)
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The US Secret Service is exploring disabling iMessage on employees' phones, since its E2E encryption may have led to the loss of January 6 texts ( / Politico)
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PriceLabs, which uses AI to help owners and managers of vacation homes and short-term rentals automate dynamic pricing, has raised $30M from Summit Partners (The Economic Times)
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RPA Supervisor, which lets companies integrate and manage their robotic process automation tools, has raised a $20M Series A led by Dawn Capital ( / TechCrunch)
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Uber unveils new features for US drivers, like showing what they'll earn and destination before accepting a trip, multiple ride requests, and a Pro debit card ( / CNBC)
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A July 2022 proposal deck shows that Babel Finance lost 8K BTC and 56K ETH, worth $280M+, in proprietary trading of customer funds, as it seeks to raise money ( / The Block)
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Samsung announces a feature that keeps users' data secure during a phone repair, starting with the Galaxy S21 series in South Korea (Sagar Naresh / SamMobile)
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Elon Musk countersues Twitter over the merger agreement in a confidential filing in a Delaware court ( / CNBC)
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Global smartphone shipments fell 7% YoY to 291M units in Q2 2022; Samsung had a 21.5% market share, followed by Apple's 16.3%, its best Q2 in the past 10 years (Strategy Analytics)
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Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election ( / Reuters)
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Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, but Lime says the claim is false; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium ( / Mashable)
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An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more ( / Bloomberg)
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Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages ( / 9to5Mac)
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